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by joeld42 14y ago
Cool! Hadn't seen that before, neat trick. Seems to me like (as other commenters have pointed out) this wouldn't be a great idea for something that is stored as a straightforward linked list. Where it seems really useful to me is a cheap wa
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by joeld42 14y ago
Here's how I evaluate game engines: - First, will my target audience be able to play it? May seem obvious but I've seen people fall in love with an engine for technical or business reasons and overlook this. - Choose a few hypothetical task
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by joeld42 15y ago
Brings back memories of Zap from torque network library. http://sourceforge.net/projects/opentnl/files/Zap/ This little sample game turned out to be tons of fun and is a great example of how to build something like this in a scalable and
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by joeld42 15y ago
There's a standard naming convention, iOS load image@2x.png on retina and image.png on non-retina but it's not strictly enforced so apple couldn't delete all the @2x images on a non-retina device. Plenty of universal apps use the @2x iphone
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by joeld42 15y ago
Hey just a free idea if anyone want to build it, I think a web app that generated stylish resumes automatically from your LinkedIn profile would be great. It could make watermarked ones for free preview and then charge you a few bucks if yo
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by joeld42 15y ago
I've worked in the visual effects industry and I don't think this is CGI, at least not in the sense that most commenters mean, a digital rendering of the dude and the wings. If it is, there's a lot of small details that they got right. It c
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by joeld42 15y ago
I had this problem as well. A lot of people do. In a way, it's not a bad thing, if you're oversubscribed it makes prioritizing things a lot easier than if you feel like you have time to do everything but aren't sure what's the most importan
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by joeld42 15y ago
This feels pretty patronizing to me. But I think it's just your choice of "cheevos". I guess I feel like you shouldn't need to earn achievements just for doing your job. But putting some gamification into a bug tracker is a good idea. For e
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by joeld42 15y ago
I like to think if it as a multiplier: idea * execution = outcome idea * 0 = 0. "Ideas are worthless without execution" 1 * execution = execution. "with hard work, any decent idea can succeed" 100 * execution = something amazing. "great id
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by joeld42 15y ago
They usually happen three times a year, a big one sometime in April, and others in August and December. And there's a mini-LD every month. There's a "gamecompo" mailing list on the front page of the ludumdare hub site that you can sign up f
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by joeld42 15y ago
wow, the brevity and parsability of xml combined with the specificity and structure of json.
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by joeld42 15y ago
Ludum Dare!! 48 hour game compo!!! wwwwwoooo! http://www.ludumdare.com/
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by joeld42 16y ago
be flexible... tell him "looks like 8am isn't working for you, let's meet for lunch (or whatever) instead". Maybe he's just not a morning person. If his work ethic continues to be a problem, talk to him about it. Ask him to commit to a numb
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by joeld42 16y ago
Good timing! The Ludum Dare 48-hour game programming contest is just over a week away. http://www.ludumdare.com A number of these folks, incl. Notch and Lexaloffle, are #ld48 regulars.
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by joeld42 16y ago
You should be posting in places that writers hang out, not here. That said, maybe I'll send you a chapter. :)
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by joeld42 16y ago
Go to a flea market and haggle. It's fun.
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by joeld42 16y ago
You can't control the actual refresh rate of the monitor or TV. The display refreshes at 60hz, you can draw every frame, or every other frame and have twice the time. And yet, like he says, Rage looks better than most 30hz games.
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by joeld42 16y ago
yeah somebody should pay that guy to write stuff.
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by joeld42 16y ago
this is just a PC casemod. bleh.
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by joeld42 16y ago
I think you are OK if you have people be "members" of your food club. It's only when you're cooking for walk-ins. Even so, I am something of a foodie and a home cook, and I wouldn't feel comfortable cooking for paying strangers, or paying t
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by joeld42 16y ago
Q. What's the difference between 'theory' and 'practice'? A. In theory, there is no difference.
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by joeld42 16y ago
I've heard good things about Ardour http://ardour.org/ especially and also Renoise http://www.renoise.com/ but I haven't tried them personally.
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by joeld42 16y ago
I don't understand? Can't you release the ruby gems or whatever it is as binaries? You only need to spend the $5 if you want to change something, right?
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by joeld42 16y ago
I've been trying to move my own pipeline from maya to blender and this has been a great resource.
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by joeld42 16y ago
feature set is unimportant. It's about the community.
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by joeld42 16y ago
As a game developer, the recipe I like is C++ with classes but I try not to use inheritance/virtual functions unless there is a clear benefit. Instead, common code can be grouped into utility classes. For example, the classic "Shape" base c
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by joeld42 16y ago
What happens if Watson wins?
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by joeld42 16y ago
This looks great, I hope it's real someday. one thing was funny: "No superfluous features" then a paragraph later "it's an MP3 player!"
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by joeld42 16y ago
This article tries to sensationalize and obfuscate something that is pretty simple in reality. RGB are the primaries in light. By mixing these three colors you can create any color the human vision system can perceive (yes, because of trist
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by joeld42 16y ago
There is a great discussion (and explanation) of this in the book on interface design "The Inmates are Running the Asylum".

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